Improvement in block formers foe muffs



CHARLES HOLLWEDE AND JULUS BRZEZINSKY. OF NEW YORK, N. Y. i Letters Patent No. 62,682, amd Marek 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLOGK FORMERS FOR MUFI'S.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN:

Bet known that we, CHARLES HoLLwnDE and JULIUs BnznzrNsKY, of the city, county, and State of New York, beve'invented o new end useful Improved Muff Bloekf' and we do hereby declare the following to be o, full, clear, and exaet description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accornpnnying drawings, making o part of this specificntion, in which- Figurc I is a. top view, showing the block closed, with the pin 6 inserted.

Figurle II.is o top view, showing the block opened, with the pin c inserted.

Figure IIIis o. side view, showing the block opened, as in Fig. II.

Figura IV is' a view of the pin b'.

Figure V is a, view of the pin c.

Construction and Operation.

The block maty be'made of eny size, and consists of a hollo'w cylinder of Wood, With sidesof proper thickness, divided into two or more equal parts, a a' a a', Iongitudinnlly by eutsradinting from its axis, and two cylindrical pins, b and c, longer the-n the cylinder, the pin 6 just filling theinterior thereof, the pine having a greater diametcr than the other, and one end tapered so ns to form o wedge. Thc'loterol surface of the block is grooved to receive elastic banda [Z d', to keep the pieces in place.v The block being closed und pin b inserted, as in Fig. I, the wetted skin is passed tightly around it nndfastened, when the pin Z) is roinoved, and the taper end of the pin c being inserted in the hole, the pin is driven home, forcing the sides of the cylinder apart end stretehing the skin with greater uniformity throu'ghout than Was attoincble by the old method.

What we cleim os olir invention, end desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A mufl' block composed of several pieeos, arrnnged and opernted substantially in the monner' :md for the purpose as hcreinbeforc set forth.

' CHAS. HOLLWEDE,.

J ULIUS BRZEZINSKY.

Witnesses:

CHAs. MonRILL, EDw'D PAYsoN. 

